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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Angry Nerd</em>: Need an Idea for a TV Show? Just Steal a Classic Story!
Hunky time-traveling Ichabod Crane has made Chris Baker lose his head. Why is every other TV show an updated version of some classic fairytale or children’s story?
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Viking's Choice: Acoustic Swagger Exists, And Ryley Walker Has It
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Ryley Walker.
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Sometimes, friends of friends are the best way to discover new music. Or, at the very least, friends of artists you never want to miss live. This was the case with Ryley Walker, a close friend and frequent tour buddy of American Primitive guitarist Daniel Bachman. Walker would accompany Bachman in seriously raucous and psychedelic live sets only a couple years ago, and Bachman would tell me, "Just wait 'til you hear Ryley's stuff." Well, now it's here — and it's not at all what I expected.
Listen: Ryley Walker, 'The West Wind'
With the charming swagger of jazz-folk troubadour Tim Buckley and the resonant, full picking style of Bert Jansch, "The West Wind" comes from Walker's first widely available release, a three-song 12". With acoustic guitar in hand and a voice like browned butter, Walker swings and sways in a lush string-and-piano arrangement right out of Buckley's Starsailor; it slowly picks up to a swirling gallop without bucking the rhythm.
The West Wind comes out digitally on Oct. 22 — and as a 12" EP on Nov. 29 — via Tompkins Square Records. Ryley Walker is currently touring Europe with Daniel Bachman.
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Push for 'smaller' Antarctic reserve
16 October 2013
Last updated at 11:44 ET
A bloc of countries has issued a joint call for the creation of marine reserves in Antarctica.
The group, which includes the US, EU, France, New Zealand and Australia, saw their initial plans thrown out by opposition from Russia earlier this year.
But the new plan suggests significant scaling down of one reserve in the hope of securing agreement.
It will be submitted to a meeting in Tasmania next week.
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), made up of 25 members with interests in the Southern Ocean, has been working since 2005 to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) in the region.
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- CCAMLR has established just one Marine Protected Area in the Antarctic so far.
- They have designated 11 priority areas in the Southern Ocean from which most MPAs will be created.
- Governments have set a goal of extending protected areas to ten percent of the world's oceans
At a special meeting in July, plans to establish two giant reserves in the Ross Sea and in east Antarctica were tabled by a number of countries.
Doubling the world's reserves
The Ross Sea proposal, supported by the US and New Zealand, would have banned commercial fishing in an area of 1.6m sq km.
The other reserve, supported by France, Australia and the EU aimed to protect 1.9m sq km on the Pacific side of Antarctica.
But Russia and the Ukraine questioned the legal basis of the plan that would have more than doubled the size of the world's marine reserves at a stroke.
Other countries, including Norway, China and Japan queried the science and the size of the proposed reserves and wanted the inclusion of a "sunset clause", which meant the decision could be reviewed in the future.
As CCAMLR operates on a consensus basis, the nations in favour of the plans were forced to withdraw.
Now ahead of the Commission's annual meeting in Hobart, the proponents of the reserves have issued revised plans and a call for their adoption.
Last month New Zealand and the US published details of a new Ross Sea plan. It cut the size of the reserve by 40% and left a question over the permanence of the arrangement.
While the proposal for east Antarctica was also revised, it remains essentially the same in terms of the area covered.
"The original bigger Ross Sea plan is now off the table," Paulus Tak from the Pew Charitable Trust told BBC News.
"It is now for a smaller area than was originally proposed. They are making the concessions to get the opponents onboard.
"Whether that will be a useful move for Russia and the Ukraine who put forward legal objections, remains to be seen."
Further concessions feared
In today's statement, the foreign ministers call on all members of the Commission to support the plans, saying that these regions are "widely recognised for their remarkable ecological and scientific importance".
They argue that the proposals before the Commission are based on "sound and best available science and will provide a unique laboratory for marine research, and will have profound and lasting benefits for ocean conservation."
However environmental campaigners like Paulus Tak are concerned that the proponents of the MPAs will make further concessions during the meeting.
"We call upon the states to maintain the ambition level, and as such each downgrading of the proposal is a matter of some concern from our side, but we want to see a successful outcome of these negotiations."
Another issue that could hold up the MPA proposal is the US government shutdown, which could prevent the American delegation from attending.
If that happens, the discussion on protecting the Antarctic could be held off for another year.
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What Does Giuliana Rancic Think About Having Twins?
Is the #Twinning idea a winner for Giuliana Rancic? Having a baby times three (baby Duke is still a little one, you know!) seems like a lot to handle, but Giuliana isn’t totally opposed to the idea of having two little babes arrive at once. Would it be work? Most definitely. But the always cheery celeb who just celebrated her son’s 1st birthday explains why it’d be OK.
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The celeb recently opened up to Your Tango about parenting, love, and how her husband Bill helped her through her battle with breast cancer. When asked if she’d “freak out” if she had twins, she responded, “I mean … yeah. I used to always want twins and then I had one and went, ‘Whoa, that was hard.’ I don’t know how people with twins do it, but they find a way. To me, the more the merrier. So if we heard we were having twins, we’d high-five and then go, ‘Oh crap. What are we going to do now?’”
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Beat Manifesto: 'Kill Your Darlings,' Figuratively And ...
In Kill Your Darlings, Dane DeHaan (left) plays Lucien Carr, a man whose charm and wit quickly command the attention of the young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) in their time at Columbia University. John Krokidas' film chronicles the "Libertine Circle" they inhabited — Ginsberg's nickname — and the events that would shatter it.
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In Kill Your Darlings, Dane DeHaan (left) plays Lucien Carr, a man whose charm and wit quickly command the attention of the young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) in their time at Columbia University. John Krokidas' film chronicles the "Libertine Circle" they inhabited — Ginsberg's nickname — and the events that would shatter it.
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Kill Your Darlings
- Director: John Krokidas
- Genre: Biopic, drama
- Running Time: 104 minutes
Rated R for sexual content, language, drug use and brief violence.
(Recommended)
With: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall
Hollywood's been trying to get a handle on the Beat Poets for years. Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac led wild — and influential — lives. But films about them, like Naked Lunch and On the Road, have never really clicked with audiences. Kill Your Darlings may fare better, partly because it stars Daniel Radcliffe, and partly because the story centers as much on murder as on poetry.
It's 1943, time for student orientation at Columbia University, and incoming freshman Allen Ginsberg is on a quiet, dignified tour of the campus library when a student with the face of a choirboy leaps on a table with a book.
It's Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and the passage that student reads outrages the librarian enough to get him hauled away by guards, with Ginsberg — as played by Radcliffe with not a hint of Harry Potter about him — grinning broadly.
Truth be told, young Ginsberg is kind of smitten both by the handsome Lucien Carr and by his literary passion. He's soon hanging out with Carr in the dorm, talking poetry and fantasizing about a closer relationship.
Carr (Dane DeHaan), a young man who's anything but a choirboy, and entirely aware of the effect he has on others, soon introduces Ginsberg to a stoned young "Willie" Burroughs (a nice piece of impersonation by actor Ben Foster) and later to Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). All of them are dreaming of changing the world, but not sure quite how to go about it.
Carr's formidable charisma becomes something of a problem when David (Michael C. Hall), his former lover and professor, won't let go.
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Carr's formidable charisma becomes something of a problem when David (Michael C. Hall), his former lover and professor, won't let go.
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They want to supplant Yeats' "Vision" with a "New Vision," but because they're college kids, their literary ambitions often take a back seat to drugs, drinking and pranks, including an elaborately planned but startlingly mild escapade at the Columbia library that gets them in all kinds of trouble.
Bigger trouble, though, is following Carr in the person of an obsessive admirer (Michael C. Hall), a former lover and professor who's long been writing Carr's papers for him — and who has recently been reduced to following him around like a puppy. How Carr deals with that situation gives the story its spine and also a startling climax.
First-time director John Krokidas doesn't make Kill Your Darlings terribly linear. When its heroes go on drug-fueled binges, so does his camera — at one point freezing other patrons at a jazz club in place so the amphetamine-buzzed poets can flit around them. And the director does some flitting of his own, through time with flashbacks, through space with abrupt switches in perspective, and through an eyebrow-notcher of a sequence that conflates three significant penetrations: Burroughs shooting heroin, Ginsberg's first sexual encounter, and the stabbing that will put a period on one fraught situation while creating another one entirely.
In writing circles, the phrase "kill your darlings" usually gets deployed by an editor as advice for a writer who's polished and labored over a favorite sentence so long that all the life has gotten squeezed out of it. "Kill your darling" means get rid of that treasured bit, and find a more natural way to say what you want to say.
The movie Kill Your Darlings is about budding artists who applied that advice to every element of their lives, abolishing rhyme and meter, declaring war on rules, traditions, even people who had the temerity to love them. They flail and they thrash, and Krokidas' film is just like them — as jazz-inflected and freewheeling as the Beat poetry these guys were about to unleash on the world. (Recommended)
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Ashton Kutcher Tops Forbes Highest-Paid TV Actors List!
He’s one of the most lovable stars on the boob tube, and it turns out Ashton Kutcher is also one of the richest!
According to Forbes’ annual Highest-Earning Television Actors roster, the “Butterfly Effect” hunk nabbed a cool $24 million over the past year.
Kutcher’s “Two and a Half Men” partner in crime Jon Cryer took the runner-up position with a salary of $21 million, and Ray Romano scored $16 million thanks to syndication royalties from “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
Rounding out the top five are Neil Patrick Harris, who is tied for #4 with Mark Harmon ($15 million) and Patrick Dempsey in fifth place with an impressive $13 million income.
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